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Conscious Consumer: Promoting Economic Justice Through Fair Trade
By Rose Benz Ericson
This publication will help readers: Understand how Fair Trade relationships enhance the quality of life for producers, their families and communities, and how women realize a disproportionate benefit. It also guides readers to interact with a global community taking action to ease inequalities wrought by traditional trade structures and discover the growing array of fairly traded products now readily available to consumers.
High school & above. Buy the booklet from FTRN
Fair Trade: A Beginner’s Guide
By Jacqueline DeCarlo
Fair Trade: A Beginner’s Guide reveals why Fair Trade means more than just bananas, coffee, and chocolate. Author and activist Jacqueline DeCarlo explains the principles behind Fair Trade and its development into a powerful economic tool. Packed with inspiring ways to make a difference, this book will encourage readers of all backgrounds to help end poverty, environmental destruction, and human exploitation.
High school & above. Buy the book from FTRN
Changing the Rules of Trade with Global Partnerships: The Fair Trade Movement
By Kimberly Grimes
This chapter from Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader clearly and concisely details the organization of Fair Trade as a social movement, from its early beginnings in the 1940s up to t he rise of FTF, FTRN and TransFair in the late 1990s. It covers the need for Fair Trade as well as the challenges it faces in the global marketplace.
College students & above. Access the chapter in PDF format from FTRN.
Fair Trade: Using our Purchasing Power for Justice and Hope
Judy Hoffhine
Using Our Purchasing Power for Justice and Hope, walks the reader through the principles of Fair Trade by means of personal narration, Bible passages, questions for reader to reflect upon, and challenges to engage the reader in learning about Fair Trade. We provide a resource list for further study. To use the book, you only need to have a Bible nearby although it might be helpful to have access to the suggested resources while doing the study.
A Cafecito Story
By Julia Alvarez
A Cafecito Story is an eco-fable by best-selling author, Julia Alvarez with woodcuts by Belkis Ramí-rez. Based on Alvarez’s experiences trying to reclaim a small coffee farm in her native Dominican Republic, it shows how a return to the traditional methods of shade-grown coffee can rehabilitate and rejuvenate the landscape and human culture.
Adults & children ~ avail in Eng & Spanish. Buy it from Global Exchange.
Guide to Fair Trade, 2007
By Coop America
Want to know where to get the latest Fair Trade products? Need organizing material for your business or organization? Discover the many possibilities of Fair Trade in Co-op America’s new full color Guide to Fair Trade. Inside you’ll find descriptions of dozens of national and international Fair Trade products. Learn where to find them using the Guide’s extensive director y of almost 200 Fair Trade businesses and organizations. Take action in the Fair Trade movement by following the step-by-step plan for mobilizing your organization and local producers.
High school & above. Access the the guide in PDF format or order hardcopies from Co-Op America
50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade
By Miles Litvinoff & John Madeley
Fair trade is a growing global movement, with a widening range of fair trade goods now available in stores. This book provides fifty reasons why buying fair trade delivers a host of benefits to people and the planet. It’s an inspiring account of how every consumer can play a part in improving and even saving lives – making global trade work better for poor people.
High school & above. Buy the book from Powell’s Independent Bookstore.
A Guide for Retailers: Creating a Successful Fair Trade Business
By Kimberly Grimes
Filled with practical, proven advice from a variety of Fair Trade entrepreneurs, the Guide for Retailers is will help any new Fair Trade business owner dedicate his/her business aspirations in the service of Fair Trade principles. It provides step-by-step guidance for necessary preparations, building a successful foundation, and enjoying the benefits of a well-run Fair Trade business.
For those starting FT businesses. Buy the booklet from FTRN.
Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
By Daniel Jaffe
Published by the University of California Press, this book addresses the essential question: Is Fair Trade working? This vivid and detailed study of coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic and environmental benefits of Fair Trade. This clearly-written book offers a nuanced analysis of the effects of fair trade on everyday life, and at the same time paints a clear picture of the complex dynamics of the fair trade and global markets. Brewing Justice also explores the changing politics of the international fair trade movements and provides recommendations for improvements.
Public & academic use. Buy the book from Powell’s Independent Bookstore
Monitoring and Impact of FairTrade Initiatives: A case study of Kuapa Kokoo and the Day Chocolate Company
By Lorain Ronchi
This case study highlights the challenges and approaches particular to monitoring impact for Fair Trade initiatives. For students and others in Fair Trade, it provides quality information on the impacts on producers and consumers of the Kuapa/Day Chocolate FairTrade initiative. For practitioners seeking to evaluate their own impact, this document will offer ideas for developing an internal impact monitoring system.
For adult readers - Access the report from Twin Trading.
Fair Trade: Market Driven Ethical Consumption
By C. Opal/A. Nicholls
This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth overview of major issues in Fair Trade, including a concise history, the economics, ethics, structures, functioning, and evaluation of the field. In clear and succinct language, the authors presented the major challenges of each aspect of Fair Trade and provided very concrete and practical solutions for its future development. There is a summary to each chapter, making it highly user-friendly.
tudents & practitioners. Buy the book from Powell’s Independent Bookstore
Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization
By L. Raynolds/D. Murray/J. Wilkinson
Summary/review: Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, emphasizing the inherent tensions of working both in, and against, the market. It covers Fair Trade’s recent rapid growth into new production regions, market arenas, and commodity areas through cases studies in Europe, North America, African and Latin America. The authors draw on, and advance, global commodity and value chain analysis, convention, and social movement approaches through these case studies and a series of synthetic analytical chapters. Students & academics. Buy the book from Powell’s Independent Bookstore
Fair Trade For All.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Henry George Charlton, Andrew Charlton.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today--how can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all nations and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of adjustments. Beginning with a brief history of the World Trade Organization and its agreements, the authors explore the issues and events which led to the failure of 2003 Cancun summit and the obstacles that face the successful completion of the Doha Round of negotiations. Finally they spell out the reforms and principles upon which a successful agreement must be based. Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful analyses, Fair Trade For All offers a radical new solution to the problems of world trade. It is a must read for anyone interested in globalization and development in the Third World.
Buy the book.
The Fair Trade Fraud.
By James Bovard.
The Fair Trade Fraud is a direct attack on US trade policies and on the principle of political control of trade. James Bovard exposed the political and moral core of protectionism, demonstrating that politicians cannot make trade more fair by making it less free.
Buy the book.